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India blocks another 118 Apps including PUBG mobile

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NEW DELHI, Sept 2: Amidst fresh tension over China’s provocation in Ladakh. India on Wednesday banned 118 more Chinese apps including the mobile game PUBG in consistent with the policy of the Ministry of Electronics and Knowledge Technology (MeitY). “The ban is in the interest of India’s sovereignty and integrity, defence and security”, a government statement said.

The statement issued by MeitY said the PUBG mobile game and other apps had been banned under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act because “they are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”.

The ban includes Players Unknown Battle Ground – PUBG, a popular online game in India. The game has been downloaded more than 100 million times and has 33 million active users in India of which around 13 million users play it daily.

“This decision is a targeted move to make sure safety, security and sovereignty of Indian cyberspace and would safeguard the interests of crores of Indian mobile and internet users.”

“The compilation of those data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which needs emergency measures,” said the statement.

The statement further added the ministry had received many complaints about the misuse of some mobile apps on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting user data to servers outside India.

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs has also sent an exhaustive recommendation for blocking these malicious apps. Likewise, there are similar bipartisan concerns, flagged by various public representatives, both outside and inside Parliament of India.

Following is the list of Apps banned (in alphabetical order):

AFK Arena

Alipay

AlipayHK

Amour .

AppLock

AppLock Lite

APUS Flashlight

APUS Launcher Pro

APUS Launcher

APUS Message Center

APUS Security

APUS Turbo Cleaner 2020

Arena of Valor

Art of Conquest: Dark Horizon

Baidu

Baidu Express Edition

Beauty Camera Plus

Bike Racing

Buy Cars

CamCard

CamCard Business

CamCard for Salesforce

CamOCR

Carrom Friends

Chess Rush

Chief Almighty

Cleaner

Creative Destruction

Crusaders of Light

Cut Cut

Cyber Hunter

Cyber Hunter Lite

Dank Tanks

Dawn of Isles

Dual Space

FaceU

Fighting Landlords

Gallery HD

Gallery Vault

Game of Sultans

GO SMS Pro

Government WeChat

HD Camera

HD Camera Pro & Selfie Camera

HD Camera Selfie Beauty Camera

Hi Meitu

Hide App

HUYA LIVE

InNote

iPick

Kitty Live

Knives Out

Lamour Love All Over The World

Learn Chinese AI

Legend

LifeAfter

Little Q Album

LivU Meet

Ludo All Star

Ludo World

Mafia City Yotta Games

Malay Social Dating App

MARVEL Super War

Message Lock (SMS Lock)

MICO Chat

Mobile Legends

Mobile Taobao

Murderous Pursuits

Music – Mp3 Player

Music player – Audio Player

Music Player – Audio Player & 10 Bands Equalizer

Music Player – Bass Booster – Free Download

Music Player – MP3 Player & 10 Bands Equalizer

MV Master – Best Video Maker & Photo Video Editor

MV Master – Make Your Status Video & Community

Netease News

Onmyo

Parallel Space Lite

Penguin E-sports Live assistant

Penguin FM

Photo Gallery & Album

Photo Gallery HD & Editor

Pitu

PUBG MOBILE LITE

PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map

Rangers of Oblivion

Ride Out Heroes

Rise of Kingdoms

Road of Kings

Rules of Survival

ShareSave by Xiaomi

Sina News

Small Q brush

Smart AppLock

Soul Hunters

Super Clean

Super Mecha Champions

Tantan

Tencent Watchlist

Tencent Weiyun

U-Dictionary

Ulike

Video Player – All Format HD Video Player

Video Player All Format for Android

VooV Meeting

VPN for TikTok

VPN for TikTok

Warpath

Web Browser

Web Browser

Web Browser & Fast Explorer

WeChat reading

WeChat Work

Yimeng Jianghu

Youku

Z Camera

ZAKZAK LIVE

(Venkatesh Iyer)